#internet archival

[fiendtheanonymous]

A variety of old PPG graphics I found while deep diving on old archived neocities and webring sites.

[zorrpu]

Pretendo needs your help!!

Pretendo Network has began an effort to archive SpotPass content before the 3DS and Wii U online services shut down April 8th

However they need us to help.

By dumping databases from your Wii U and 3DS systems, you can help preserve SpotPass content. Apparently you don’t even need custom firmware to dump 3DS data!? so please consider helping them out if you can!!

Here’s everything you should need to know

(I am not personally affiliated with Pretendo or the Spotpass Archival Project, I just want to help)

[mugenfinder]

Found something interesting while looking through Flash Animator websites. It's easy to forget that Flash Player was used professionally, Evastore.jp, the official(?) website for Evangelion merchandise used to have flash animations play when you entered the website. Seems like each one would focus on a different character, and they're very short but nice.

Looks like they were mostly done by a single person, 158KAIKI (Elite Motion Designs), who uploaded the 10th Anniversary animation to their site. I think they put all the other openings together in a reel but that won't load on Wayback Machine.

So far I can get the Asuka, Shinji, and Toji openings. The ones named Ritsuko and Fuyu won't load. The Toji one is really nice, however.

[tboyautism]

hello! im looking for help regarding some ds9 youtube videos by the youtube channel "dr twink, md". unfortunetly, it appears the channel was deleted. does anyone have any info or urls regarding this channel? thank you!

[dihalect]

so, i once saw a self-professed data/media hoarder on tumblr whose media storage server was publicly accessible. (it had movies and tv shows and such; unfortunately i can’t find any trace of it.) i think a setup like that would be best for preserving documentation of the palestinian genocide — those news stories/images/videos need to be saved before they're scrubbed, but they won't do much good sitting on individuals' hard drives.

so we need a centralized repository that can stay up for as long as possible. ideally, anyone would be able to view it, and any vetted person would be able to add to it (vetting to limit the risk of sabotage).

long shot, but are there any data-hoarders/internet archivists/etc. on here who would be interested in helping out with that effort, or taking it on themselves?

edited to add a little context: i could easily automate the scraping of posts from instagram, tiktok, and maybe twitter and tumblr*. it’s the hosting that i’d need help with.

*i don’t think anybody is sharing firsthand documentation on tumblr, but we’ve got a lot of copies of things that may have been deleted elsewhere.

[azuremist]

Do you know if there is a way to archive the contents of a tag on tumblr? One of the shows I really enjoy had an active fandom on tumblr in the early 2010's and I'd like to archive it if I can.

Unfortunately, I don’t know of any manner of doing this except for reblogging everything to a blog, and then archiving that blog.

I’d also be interested in anything that does this, so if anyone has any methods for this, please shoot me an ask!

[aipom93]

Hi not sure if you’ve got it yet but suedes pokemon journey episode 119 is on dailymotion don’t know if tumblr allows links but the number after slash video is x8atkhp

I did not have it, but because you let me know it was out there, I now have it and it is available on the google drive in my pinned post. Thank you so much for telling me where to get it! If you would like some credit for letting me know, just shoot me a DM. It's thanks to kind people like you, that my hope of getting all of the episodes back for people to watch can come true.

[iri-desky]

GET KOSA TRENDING.

STOP SCROLLING NOW!

AS OF FEBRUARY 21ST, 2024, WE GOT FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE DAY OF DECISION OF THE KOSA BILL, WHICH WILL CAUSE MASS CENSORSHIP ROUND THE INTERNET IF PASSED. WE NEED EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS AND CONTRIBUTE. I'M NOT GIVING UP ON YOU ALL.

(IMPORTANT UPDATE: Kosa will not necessarily pass on the 26th. It only has the support to pass in Senate, and we STILL HAVE TIME. That being said, time is of the essence.)

WE'RE DOWN TO THE WIRE BUT WE CAN'T GIVE UP YET. IF WE GIVE UP, EVERYTHING IS OVER. IF WE DON'T, AT LEAST WE HAVE A CHANCE.

I'M THE ONE WHO SOUNDED THE ALARM, AND I'M NOT GOING TO CURL UP AND DIE YET.

Reblog this post in every LEGAL way you can under the Tumblr guidelines with the appropriate tags. TELL AND TAG EVERYONE YOU KNOW, then add the tags to see below... and more if you can think of any complying.

Visit badinternetbills.com if you want to find a way to defeat KOSA. It WILL NOT take much of your time. Reblog with any other information or sources, too-- but make sure to reblog if you can.

Reblog if you support lgbtq+ content.

Reblog if you support questioning queer youth and/or abused youth getting the information they need.

Reblog if you support Ao3 and/or other sites that wholeheartedly preserve talentedly made media.

Reblog if you're going to repost this on other sites than Tumblr and spread the word across Twitter, Tik Tok, Pinterest, or elsewhere, alongside the link to badinternetbills.com.

Reblog if you think KOSA is unfair and shouldn't be anyone's problem -- including the adults ALL OVER THE DAMN EARTH forced to face the mass censorship it causes because "think of the American Children!".

Reblog if you support internet activism and Palestine.

Reblog if you hate fascism or censorship, and don't want actually serious and helpful conversations censored on the internet.

Reblog if you value the internet in any way at all whatsoever.

CHECK THIS PETITION, TOO! https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-kosa?recruiter=1331807538&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=sms&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf&recruited_by_id=57368c40-d0fd-11ee-98f7-2175430f819f&share_bandit_exp=initial-36809664-en-US

(Also, please reblog with at least "stop kosa" as a tag and not "kosa". I made the mistake of not adding just "kosa" as a tag...)

We won't let this stand any longer. Let's start a riot and get this trending.

[sleep-deprived-person]

So apparently KOSA (2024 edition) is getting either thrown out until next year or put into effect in six days. That was a guesstimate based on a different person saying that's when Congress is back in session and may be false.

Update that's going in the main post at the top: it has enough support to pass Congress.

It failed the last two times because people were voting against it.

This time, KOSA has traction among the pro-LGBTQ parties. Because nobody is fucking calling their bullshit and screaming from the rooftops that calling it the "Kids Online Safety Act" is misleading.

What will it passing do?

Nothing much, only prevent any education on LGBTQIA+ (it's that stupid fucking argument about us grooming kids again), shut down nearly every fandom space on the internet, and make it required for most big tech companies to have your ID.

Want to have resources for kids to discover their identity readily available? Yes? Then fucking speak up against this stupid fucking bill.

Fandom spaces like Tumblr, Twitter (? I thought the MAGA assholes liked Musk?), Tiktok, Archive Of Our Own, and any other website that hosts fanfic or fanart? Either shut down permanently, forced to uproot to a different country and down for a while (best case scenario, and they likely won't be able to send any data, and therefore fanfics, to the US), or gutted so that you only get to put G rated cishet ships on there, if any shipping at all. How to avoid that? I've already said it: Call your fucking representatives.

Want to avoid the fucking dystopic task of being legally obligated to give big tech your government issue ID? Again, cause an uproar. Call your goddamned representatives.

If they can pass this, the ripple effects could be catastrophic.

So, for fuck's sake, any Americans that can impact this stupid fucking bill and see this? Do everything in your power to shut it down because you have until February twenty sixth (26th) to send this bill back to where it belongs.

And if you can't do that? Reblog, copy my tags, and boost the signal.

Sorry not sorry for ranting, making you scroll through that, and swearing a probably excessive amount, but KOSA is a bill with a GLOBAL IMPACT being passed by ONE COUNTRY because some old people are scared of two guys with who were told they were girls kissing within five hundred miles of a child. Fuck this shit, I shouldn't have to worry about bad bills in America but I fucking do because I use the internet and would like to avoid mass censorship. Fuck this, fuck conservatives, and fuck the fact that some boomers make your country's policies.

Now, if you won't mind me, I'm going to be up until three in the morning downloading fanfiction or copying and pasting them into a a text file if I can't so I can read them by the end of the week.

[beggars-opera]

One very important note on the immense value of the Internet Archive that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

It crawls major newspapers like the New York Times multiple times per day.

For anything other than one of those scrolling updates breaking news pages, you can access it from the Archive usually within an hour or two of it being published. No paywall. You want international news? You got it. Opinion? That too. Recipes? It's all here. Page not yet archived? There's a button for that and now you got it.

There are various paywall-evading extensions and tricks out there, but they don't always work. This does.

Go forth and read the newspaper.

[superabnormal]

2006, via flickr

[prokopetz]

"This new deletion policy is terrible for preservation of archival media" that's the point, bro. That's explicitly the point, though they'll never admit it. Major social media platforms straight up do not want archival media to be a thing – it disrupts their business model by existing, and it's hard to monetise. In their perfect world, media more than 90 days old would vanish in a puff of smoke and be irrecoverably forgotten.

[zorrpu]

in case you missed it, this is my google document of every piece of Mii merchandise known to man

I am constantly updating it so check it out

[lets-steal-an-archive]

https://archive.org/details/vhsinstructionals

[kimbureh]

speaking of Ao3 not being a social medium:

it will always need money. It’s an archive. Even if they meet their yearly donation aim now without any problem doesn’t mean it will be like this in 5 years, in 10 years, in 80 years. Yeah you read that right. Ao3 is an Archive. It intends to be available forever. Like a library. Because Ao3 *is* a library. If you want to keep your library, you wouldn’t cut its budget just because it did well last year. Maintaining a library creates running expenses. The purpose of an archive is to preserve data indefinitely, and this costs money.

[hotvampireadjacent]

The internet archive is under attack

https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1545437753873244161?s=21&t=U7BfkxZAswPfBBOWQQ_qeA

https://twitter.com/camwoodstock/status/1546196167788298240?s=21&t=U7BfkxZAswPfBBOWQQ_qeA

The internet archive is so important it’s sooo important to archive digital data to preserve it if you can throw a couple of dollars their way to support them then please do so. Don’t let greedy people and individuals take away the internet archive!